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What to Know About eCommerce Challenges in India

Aug 23rd, 2018

A recent joint study published in The Economic Times found that eCommerce in India is a rather treacherous landscape. According to the nine month-long research conducted by Google, consultants Bain & Company and philanthropic venture fund Omidyar Network, these are the following highlights:

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How to Add Image Optimization to Magento 2

Jul 24th, 2018

Whether you’re a massive online retailer or a small mom and pop business, optimizing your image content for eCommerce is one of the easiest ways you can improve your Magento 2 web performance. Here I will outline simple steps to make your images perfectly compressed and optimized across any device. This will improve UX, SEO, and load times—which have been proven to increase eCommerce sales and conversions.

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Disrupting the Traditional CDN Pricing Model With ImageEngine’s Smart Bytes

May 22nd, 2018

Recently, we were talking to an industry analyst who voiced an opinion that Content Delivery Networks (CDN) are commodities. CDNs all take the same approach to getting your content there faster.

We agree. We need a new, smarter approach! Something that takes the CDN world, improves it, and stands it on its head. We have built ImageEngine to dramatically improve performance, deliver images via a new, smarter network, and disrupt the traditional CDN business approach along the way.

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ImageEngine Introduces JP2, JPEG2000 for Apple Devices

May 22nd, 2018

ScientiaMobile has launched full support for JPEG2000. This means that browsers supporting JPEG2000 – typically Safari browsers – will receive smaller size image files with better image quality. According to our tests, ImageEngine customers can expect to save 57% of the payload of the original image by delivering JPEG2000 images to Safari users.

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What is Different about ImageEngine? Proactive Device Detection

Apr 30th, 2018

Other CDNs and Image Management platforms claim to have image acceleration solutions. But when you ask the right questions and look under the hood, they do not have the key ingredient to deliver a truly different CDN service. That key ingredient is proactive device detection. Device detection enables ScientiaMobile to deliver a Smart Bytes image payload.

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How to Add Image Optimization to WordPress

Apr 4th, 2018

As of January 2018, WordPress is currently used by more than 29.4% of the top 10 million websites and for good reason. By installing the popular W3 Total Cache Plugin, WordPress users can easily implement dynamic image optimization by connecting to ImageEngine. Here are four simple and straightforward steps for implementation.

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ROI for Image Optimization Solution

Mar 7th, 2018

The ROI for Image Optimization is driven by three benefits: Revenue Improvement, Streamlined Image Management, and Content Delivery Network (CDN) savings.

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What is an Image CDN?

Jan 4th, 2018

Images are the new norm in online content, and maximizing the speed of images served to customers or webviewers is a recent business challenge that many e-commerce sites and advertising platforms attempt to solve a number of different ways. However, unless images are being served on a Content Delivery Network (CDN), the images served on a website will most

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JPEG 2000 and JPEG XR Support by Browser

Nov 7th, 2017

The majority  (79.42%) of browsers do not support JPEG 2000 image format. Of the browsers that do support JPEG 2000, Mobile Safari makes up the majority with 14.48% share. All other browsers that support JPEG 2000 have less

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Reduce Image Payload: CDN Acceleration

Nov 6th, 2017

Websites can use image CDNs and image acceleration to reduce image payload and improve the mobile user experience.  The faster a page loads, the more likely a mobile user will complete a sale. For eCommerce companies like Amazon, improving the mobile load time can result in millions of dollars in addition sales.

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